Knitted garment.



A. J. SCHMIDT.

KNITTED GARMENT.

APPucATxoN man MAR.31,1915.

l Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

ffl L Il! f ALFRED J. SCHMIDT, OF JERSJEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN WANAMAKER,

PHILADELPHIA, OF PHILADELPHIA, lEN'NSYLV'ANIIA,r A CORPORATION OF PENN- SYLVANIA.

v To all whom t may concern: y y

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. SCHMIDT, a" subject of the German Emperor, and a Aresident of Jersey City, Hudson county,

the case of knitted garments, will com-v pletely cover the underlying stitches, avoiding grinning of the ground stitches-through the overlald stitches. 'The threads will lie in the same direction as the stitches covered by the same, and as the superposed threads are limited in area to the individual stitches over which they are applied, there will be no grinning between the rows of stitchesshould the garment be pulled adjacent the letter, numeral or otherdevice applied thereto. Theseand other features of my invention are more fully described hereinafter, reference being to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is an enlarged face view of 'a section of a sweater or similar garment showing the manner of applying a letter or numeral constituting the subject of my invention; lFig. 2, is a sectional view on the line 2h2, Fig. 1, showing an interlining or covering for the underside of the garment at the point where the letter, numeral &c., is

1appl1ed, and Fig. 3, is a perspectiye View of a sweater garment showing the front thrown back to expose the inside of the garment at the point where the letter or numeral is apyplied and the interlining or covering for ythe back of such letter, numeral, or the like. The usual practice heretofore of displayling letters, numerals, &c., upon knitted garments such as sweaters, sweater coats, shirts and the like has been to sew a'patch on the front of the garment carrying such letter j or figure, or the patch may be in the shape of the letter, numeral or gure. This is objectionable in many ways. In the, rst

Specification of Letters Patent.

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- place, it is diliicult to center the letter'properly as it is usually of a material Wholly different from the body of the sweater; it is not pleasing in appearance; the stitches securing it in place show on the underside of the sweater, and it is not permanent,

Isince the stitches securing it to the garment are liable to wear or work loose, and it destroys the elasticity of the garment at the 1point where' it is applied to the same. ln my improved garment, however, the individual stitches composing the same are overlaid'with threads of a yarn identical with that composing the garment as to weight and general characteristics but of a different color, and the overlaid stitches follow identically the stitches and wales of stitches composing the body of the garment without destroying or in any way altering the elasticity of the same. It is a relatively .simple matter to work outa letter of proper size by using the stitches making up the fabric of the garment as the means of delining the same, and inthe accompanying drawings, the representation 0f the letter U has been so effected. lThese stitches may be7 applied in various ways, but are preferably set by hand' to insure proper covering of the underlying interlocked stitches constitutingthe body of the garment, and such superposed stitches will, of course, have to 1 besecured to and ytied into the back of the garment in a manner that willavoid showr` ing the samegupon the face of the garment or of grinning through small apertures that might present themselves when the garment is pulled or stretched. Such tying in of the superposed threads would naturally present.

an unsightly rear surface, and this rear suri face is covered with a patch ofknitted material of the same shade or color as the arment, which patch l has its back sur ace faced to agree or coincide withthe back surface of the garment; the rear portions of the stitches of the same lying-in the same position as the rear portionsnx of the stitches of the garment, and this patch is sewn down ioo by blind stitching to the rear face of the f sweater vor garment, as clearly shown in Fig.

3. The patch being of the same color, a

filain one-tone surface is presented, in which the'securing means are scarcely discernible' since the stitches of the patch extend in'"the same direction as the stitches of the rear faceof the garment. This patch, further'-,

more, does not destroy norra'ect the elasticl i the same; 3 the overlaid or superposed stitches of a contrasting color; 4 the patch secured on the under face of the garment to hide the rear portions of the superposed stitches, and 5 indicates the blind stitching securing such patch in place. r

The display of letters, numerals or the like on the outer surface of a sweater or similar garment is in the nature of ornamentation, and toavoid the use of alternativel expressions this term has been employed in the claims. It will be understood, however, that the term ornamentation is intended to cover and include letters, numerals, gures, symbols, or the like when displayed in the manner above' described.

l claim: I

l. A garment of the sweater type made of knitted fabric comprising a plurality of interconnected stitches, said garment having ornamentation upon the outer surface of the same formed by stitches of the same character asthose making up the garment but of a dierentcolor, each stitch of ornamentation being coextensive in area with a stitch of the fabric, the superposed stitches incr/,ssi

being tied into the fabric adjacent the wales upon which they are placed.

2. A knitted garment having ornamentation formed on the face ,fof the same by superposing upon the stitches constituting the garment a thread ofa different color, said overlaid thread being isolated with respect to the stitches carrying the same, and a patch carried by the rear face of said garment for covering the portions of the superposed or overlaid threads, said patch being of the sam'e material as the garment and having stitches lying in the same plane as the stitches of the garment so as to simulate the plain rear surface of the latter.

' 3. A knitted garment havingornamentation formed on the face of the same by superposing upon the' stitches constituting the garment a thread of a dierent color,

said overlaid thread being isolated with respect to the stitches carrying the same and tied in -at the back of the same along the wales of the covered stitches, and a patch carried by the rear face of said garment for covering the portions of the superposed or overlaid threads, said patch being of the same knitted material and color as the garment and having its back stitches lying in the same plane or relation as the stitches of the garment so as to simulate the plain rear surface ofthe latter.

ALFRED J. SCHMIDT. 

